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Iamsemisweet -> RE: Anorexic models (1/13/2012 11:38:55 AM)
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This has been my experience too. The one consumer store that has not gone to vanity sizing is Target.
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I'm wondering when Size 12 became considered a Plus Size. Because when I used to shop plus sizes, they started at Size 16, typically. Size 12 is average, not plus.
Real plus size, at modeling agencies, starts at 14 or 16 depending on the agency. 0-6 is fashion, depending on the height of the model. Size 6-12 is commercial usually. Having been signed to 15+ agencies in several countries... I'm pretty certain of the current standards.. lol
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There was no resizing, proper pret-a-porter sizing has remained consistent.Vanity sizing however occurs in 'the real world' consumerist stores. Chains like the gap etc adjusted their sizes to make you fell better about yourself.. so when you go in to try on those size 10s, and they are too big, and the 8s fit.. they figure (rightly in most cases) that the simple excitement of finding out you've 'gotten smaller' will make you buy not just that one pair, but maybe 2 or 3 pair!
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A gap size 4 would literally fall off me (like with the pants buttoned and zipped), but a real size 4 fits fine. What used to be a 4 at express is more like a 6 now. The trendy euro brands however often go the other way... At H&M a 4 usually fits tighter, like a borderline 2. Having worked in the industry most of my life, I'm VERY intimately aware of these discrepancies by brand & manufacturer.
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